Jerry Armer and William Fetters v. The City of Salem, Ruth Mullnack, Beulah Chafin, Raymond D. Weaver, Dan Eudy, and Russell Miller

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Jerry Armer and William Fetters brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against appellees, the City of Salem, Missouri, the City’s Mayor, and four individual members of the City’s Board of Aldermen, claiming that their rights to procedural due process were violated when they were discharged from their positions as city police officers without notice or a hearing. The district court 1 granted summary judgment in favor of appellees. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Armer and Fetters were hired as police officers for the City of Salem, a fourth-class city, in…